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BOLIVAR, Mo. – Å·ÃÀÊÓƵ students were recognized for their contributions to their academic departments and colleges at Honors Chapel on May 1 in Pike Auditorium on the Bolivar campus.

Spring 2017 graduates honored included:

• Outstanding Music Graduate – Ashley Fox, Dunnegan
• Outstanding Commercial Art Graduate – Kaylee Dye, Blue Springs
• Outstanding Studio Art Graduate – Natalie O’Keefe, Granite City, Ill.
• Outstanding Ministry Graduate – Chelsea Hilbert, Owasso, Okla.
• Outstanding Theology Graduate and Behavioral Sciences Male Graduate – Joshua Sharp, Camdenton
• Outstanding Behavioral Sciences Female Graduate – Kayla Penticuff, Odessa
• Outstanding Elementary Education Graduate – Sarah Turney, St. Charles
• Outstanding Middle School Education Graduate – Lydia Swisher, Newton, Kan.
• Outstanding Secondary Education Graduate – Isaak Pearson, Springfield
• Outstanding Social Science Education Graduate – Douglas Chronister, Stockton
• Outstanding History Graduate – Wesley Dwayne Gilden, Bolivar
• Outstanding Political Science Graduate – Aric Gooch, Bolivar
• Outstanding Accounting Graduate – Matthew Randolph, Lebanon
• Outstanding Business Administration Graduate – Jacey Buckles, Lebanon
• Outstanding College of Business & Computer Science Graduate and Computer Science Graduate – Kelli McNabb, Clever
• Outstanding Web Systems & Design Graduate – Shellie Austin, Bolivar
• Outstanding Computer Information Science Graduate – Regan Katz, Hampton, Iowa
• Outstanding Chemistry Graduate – MariaLynn Jaeger, Ashmore, Ill.
• Outstanding English/Writing Graduate – Travis Furtkamp, Ozark

Other honorees and scholarship recipients were:

• J.A. Clark Biology Award recipient – Aleece Kanai, Mount Vernon
• Snellen Scholar & Service Award recipient – Tarah Goodknight, Princeton
• James Frederick Hurst Memorial Mathematics Award recipient – Julie Bowman, Franklin, N.C.
• Outstanding First-Year Chemistry Student – Allison Cormican, Sedalia
• Presser Scholarship recipient – Karen Kelley, Jefferson City
• Baker Book Award recipient – Jess Huck, Pleasant Hill, Iowa
• Autry & Irene Brown Scholarship recipient – Addie Bresee, Fordland
• Autry & Irene Brown Scholarship and Joe B. Shelton Behavioral Sciences Award recipient – Ashley Monje, Arnold
• Rose E. Ray Scholarship recipients – Kailey Scifres, Bentonville, Ark.; Kimber Stout, Mansfield; Olivia Grace Harris, Little Rock, Ark.
• Sara McGaha Memorial Scholarship recipient – Monica White, Eldon
• Dutile Memorial Hebrew Scholarship recipient – Brandon Eardley, Granite City, Ill.
• Virginia Hopper Scholarship recipient – Hannah Syftestad, Reedsburg, Wis.

Å·ÃÀÊÓƵ will hold three Spring commencement ceremonies. The Bolivar campus undergraduate ceremony will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 20, on the Merrill Burnidge Memorial Forum; the graduate degree commencement will be at 3 p.m. in the Jane and Ken Meyer Wellness and Sports Center; and the Springfield campus commencement will be at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 18, at Second Baptist Church, Springfield.